The Barça had tied to Courtois, but Zubi chose to Ter Stegen

As it has published the newspaper "Sport", a director of the FC Barcelona had obtained the "himself want to" of Thibaut Courtois and his representative to turn into the new goalkeeper of the Barcelona group of face to the next seasons. The director in question, whose name has not been revealed by the Catalan newspaper, would have contacted with the guardameta Belgian of the Athletic of Madrid the past season after Víctor Valdés announced that it would not be still in the Barça, and on request of Sandro Rosell.

After arriving until the surroundings of Courtois, achieved even congeniar with the goalkeeper and originate a relation of become friends with he, that would have left want to by the Barcelona interest. Later, and after Courtois had accepted already the initial proposal of the FC Barcelona, Zubizarreta chose to promote the signing of Marc-André Ter Stegen when having been working in his incorporation from 2010, descartando of definite form the contracting of one of the best put of the world.

From here, the director would not have given by defeated and would have filtered the interest of the Barça in Courtois to the press so that the fans culé did popular pressure with the aim to change of perception to Zubizarreta and do him rectify, but already was too late. "If Zubizarreta thinks that the goalkeeper has to be Ter Stegen, will be Ter Stegen", signalled Josep Maria Bartomeu. The conflict between some directors that were in favour of fichar to Courtois and the final decision of Zubizarreta would have caused, as it aims the Catalan newspaper, an interim war in the entity.

Finally it has fichado to Ter Stegen and Courtois is totally descartado. Besides, it seems that the name of the second goalkeeper of the Barça will go out of Claudio Bravo or Keylor Navas. The sector disconforme of the directive would be posing propose that it establish a "sportive commission" to do a follow-up of the proposals of Zubizarreta, and that said commission was integrated by directors, ex trainers and people that know the club to perfection.


Carlos Domínguez
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